[Tutor] Python file escaping issue?

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

@Wayne, sorry to have replied to you directly..

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
<zebra05 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Solved by moving the file just under C:\
>
> Must be an issue with directory name spaces.
>
> By the way, my code was riddled with bugs. readlines() returns a list
> object, which does not have a close method - and i had not placed quotes
> around the new_file argument.
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <
> zebra05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> Thank you for responding. I did try declaring it as a raw string, and what
>> i get is pretty much the same result (slashes in the path become double
>> slashes, so naturally the file is not found).
>>
>> I did try googling around for how to handle/ escape file paths, but i
>> cannot seem to dig up anything useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sithembewena
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Wayne Werner <waynejwerner at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <
>>> zebra05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to read a file (Python 2.5.2, Windows XP) as follows:
>>>>
>>>> assignment_file = open('C:\Documents and Settings\coderoid\My
>>>> Documents\Downloads\code_sample.txt', 'r+').readlines()
>>>> new_file = open(new_file.txt, 'w+')
>>>> for line in assignment_file:
>>>>     new_file.write(line)
>>>>
>>>> new_file.close()
>>>> assignment_file.close()
>>>>
>>>> When the code runs, the file path has the slashes converted to double
>>>> slashes. When  try to escape them, i just seemto add more slashes. What am i
>>>> missing?
>>>
>>>
>>> try using the r to declare it as a raw string:
>>> >>> filename = r'C:\Documents and Settings\coderoid\otherstuff'
>>> >>> filename
>>> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\coderoid\\otherstuff'
>>>
>>> that should work.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
>> http://www.lloyddube.com
>>
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> Regards,
> Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
> http://www.lloyddube.com
>



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